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Amazon Prime Cons Seattle WA Charge Explained ($150.99, $149.09, etc.) What It Is and How to Stop It

Sunday, 2025.02.09 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Mystery Amazon Prime Charge Solved! 🕵️‍♂️✨ TLDR: it is likely a Prime subscription, you can check details here: Your Amazon Memberships & Subscriptions Details and more info: Noticed a mysterious charge labeled “Amazon Prime Cons Seattle WA” on your statement? Some people have reported the total to be $150.99, $149.09 or similar amounts. Let’s break it down and figure out where the charge came from! Here we go: 🚨💡 Q: What is this “Amazon Prime Cons Seattle WA” charge? 🤔

Complete Instructions for Creating Multi-Page PDF in Photoshop Using Artboards

Saturday, 2025.01.04 J.D. H. Leave a comment

How to Create a Two-Page Duplex PSD/PDF in Photoshop for Double-Sided Printing Recently, I had to scan a duplex (double-sided) form, edit it in Photoshop, and then reprint it as a duplex document for mailing. The catch? I’d never made a “two-page” document in Photoshop before. 😅 After some trial and error (and a few cups of coffee ☕), I figured it out. Here’s the process I used—it’s surprisingly straightforward once you know the steps! NOTE: There are definitely better

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Photoshop keeps moving the wrong layer [SOLVED]

Tuesday, 2024.04.16 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Recently when using Photoshop 2024 to move some small rasterized calendar text with a transparent background, Photoshop kept moving the wrong layer. Specifically the layer behind the object that I wanted to move. I checked that I was on the correct layer (and I was). Finally I realized that “Auto-Select” was checked in the move tool options dialog. After unchecking that, all was well! Short summary: if you are having difficulty getting photoshop to move the correct layer, try checking

Mass Delete Multiple Downloaded Quicken Transactions

Monday, 2020.06.29 J.D. H. 6 comments

Sometimes you may need to delete Quicken downloaded transactions. However, on face value, it appears that Quicken makes it very time consuming to delete downloaded transactions. 🙁 Thankfully, there is a way to delete more than one transaction at a time! This cuts down on the number of clicks required and will hopefully save you some time. 🙂 UPDATE: I finally figured out a way to delete ALL downloaded transactions in a Quicken account. I am making this Tip 1

Turn off Kindle singles recommendations etc. [SOLVED[

Thursday, 2015.01.08 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Some Kindle questions from readers: Q1. How do I turn off the annoying Kindle singles crap that takes up half of my Kindle’s screen?! Menu -> Settings -> Device options -> Personalize your Kindle -> Advanced Options -> Cover View Recommendations -> Off Q2. Can I get rid of recomendations, they are way off?! While you are at it, you can also turn off Special Offers Recommendations: Menu -> Settings -> Device options -> Personalize your Kindle -> Advanced Options

Fix the brightness adjustment buttons on a Dell M6700 [SOLVED]

Thursday, 2014.01.23 J.D. H. 4 comments

Occasionally after a few hibernate/resume cycles, my Dell Precision M6700 laptop’s brightness UP/DOWN buttons become unresponsive (specifically, the Fn+Up Arrow and Fn+Down Arrow key combination). Rebooting will fix the issue but sometimes if you are in the middle of something that can be a major inconvenience. Thankfully the same solution I posted for other Dell models also works on the M6700 🙂 Instructions for re-enabling brightness adjustment (without rebooting) #1 Go into device manager and locate your display adapter (in my case,

Missing check number column in Quicken [SOLVED]

Tuesday, 2013.09.03 J.D. H. 14 comments

Q. Help! I just upgraded from Quicken 2010 to a later edition and now I am missing my check number column for all my credit card accounts! (I use that field to store extra info) Where did my check number column go in Quicken and how do I GET IT BACK? A. Thankfully, you can easily re-enable the Check # field (if a checking count) -or-Reference # field (if another type of account) Here is how: #1 While at the